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Mojo Press
Mojo Press was a small press which primarily published science fiction, horror fiction, horror, and Western (genre), western books and graphic novels between 1994 and 1999. History Mojo Press was founded in 1994 by publisher Ben Ostrander and managing editor Rick Klaw, Richard Klaw ostensibly to publish the Joe R. Lansdale and Klaw co-edited anthology ''Weird Business'' (1995), although the first Mojo Press title was actually the Klaw-edited comic book anthology ''Creature Features'' (1994) featuring the original Lansdale story "Grease Trap", illustrated by Ted Naifeh. In 1994, during the 90s comic-boom, friends Lansdale and Klaw had ruminated over the non-existence of "a comic book anthology with some of the biggest names in fantasy and horror fiction".Klaw's "The Secret History of ''Weird Business''" Part ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Mojo may refer to: * Mojo (African-American culture), a magical charm bag used in Hoodoo Arts, entertainment and media Film and television * Mojo (2017 film), ''Mojo'' (2017 film), a 2017 Indian Kannada drama film written and directed by Sreesha Belakvaadi * Mojo (play), ''Mojo'' (play), a 1995 play by English playwright Jez Butterworth ** Mojo (1997 film), ''Mojo'' (1997 film) based on the play, directed by Butterworth * Mojo HD, an American television network * Mojo Jojo, the main villain in ''The Powerpuff Girls'' series Games * Mojo (board game), ''Mojo'' (board game) * ''Mojo!'', a 2003 video game * Mojo (microconsole), an Android video game console by Mad Catz * Mojo Rules System (RPG), created by ''Polymancer'' magazine * Mojo, a characters of Chrono Cross#Mojo, character in ''Chrono Cross'' Literature * Mojo (comics), a Marvel Comics villain * Mojo (magazine), ''Mojo'' (magazine), a British music magazine * Mother Jones (magazine), ''Mother Jones'' (magazine) (MoJo) * '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bookstop (company)
Bookstop Inc. was a Texas-based chain of bookstores that was at one time the fourth-largest bookselling chain in the United States. In 1989 Barnes & Noble acquired the company, at which point it became a subsidiary of Barnes & Noble. The chain also did business under the name Bookstar due to trademark conflicts in other states. Business model Laura J. Miller, author of ''Reluctant Capitalists: Bookselling and the Culture of Consumption'', wrote that the chain "combined discounting with very wide selection, careful attention to display, and a reliance on sophisticated information systems in order to build a chain that would appeal to affluent, educated readers."Miller, Laura. ''Reluctant Capitalists: Bookselling and the Culture of Consumption''. University of Chicago Press, September 15, 2008. , 9780226525921. p50 Jason Epstein, author of ''Book Business: Publishing Past, Present, and Future'', described the chain as being modeled on the supermarket concept. Miller stated that the s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nebula Award
The Nebula Awards annually recognize the best works of science fiction or fantasy published in the United States. The awards are organized and awarded by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA), a nonprofit association of professional science fiction and fantasy writers. They were first presented in 1966 and are awarded in four categories for literary works of different lengths. A fifth category for film and television episode scripts was given 1974–78 and 2000–09, and a sixth category for game writing was begun in 2018. In 2019 SFWA announced that two awards that were previously run under the same rules but not considered Nebula awards—the Andre Norton Award for Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction and the Ray Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation—were to be considered official Nebula awards. The rules governing the Nebula Awards have changed several times during the awards' history, most recently in 2010. The SFWA Nebula Conference, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Picacio
John Picacio (born September 3, 1969) is an American artist specializing in science fiction, fantasy and horror illustration. Biography Picacio was born on September 3, 1969, in San Antonio, Texas.ArmadilloCon Biography Accessed January 30, 2008 As of 2007, he still lives and works in San Antonio, together with his wife and daughter. He earned a Bachelor of Architecture degree from the in 1992, and illustrated his first book – '' Behold the Man: The Thirtieth Anniversary Edition'' by |
Jonathan Carroll
Jonathan Samuel Carroll (born January 26, 1949) is an American fiction writer primarily known for novels that may be labelled magic realism, slipstream or contemporary fantasy. He has lived in Austria since 1974. Life and work Carroll was born in New York City to Sidney Carroll, a film writer whose credits included '' The Hustler'', and June Carroll (née Sillman), an actress and lyricist who appeared in numerous Broadway shows and two films. He is the half brother of composer Steve Reich and nephew of Broadway producer Leonard Sillman. His parents were Jewish, but Carroll was raised in the Christian Science religion. A self-described "troubled teenager", he finished primary education at the Loomis School in Connecticut and graduated with honors from Rutgers University in 1971, marrying artist Beverly Schreiner in the same year. He relocated to Vienna, Austria a few years later and began teaching literature at the American International School, and has made his home in Aust ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Moorcock
Michael John Moorcock (born 18 December 1939) is an English writer, particularly of science fiction and fantasy, who has published a number of well-received literary novels as well as comic thrillers, graphic novels and non-fiction. He has worked as an editor and is also a successful musician. He is best known for his novels about the character Elric of Melniboné, which were a seminal influence on the field of fantasy in the 1960s and 1970s. As editor of the British science fiction magazine '' New Worlds'', from May 1964 until March 1971 and then again from 1976 to 1996, Moorcock fostered the development of the science fiction "New Wave" in the UK and indirectly in the United States, leading to the advent of cyberpunk. His publication of '' Bug Jack Barron'' (1969) by Norman Spinrad as a serial novel was notorious; in Parliament, some British MPs condemned the Arts Council of Great Britain for funding the magazine. In 2008, ''The Times'' named Moorcock in its list of "The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Behold The Man (novel)
''Behold the Man'' is a existentialist science fiction novel by British writer Michael Moorcock. It originally appeared as a novella in a 1966 issue of '' New Worlds'' magazine; later, Moorcock produced an expanded version that was first published in 1969 by Allison & Busby (one of the first books published by the company). The title derives from John 19, Verse 5, in the New Testament: "Then Jesus came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe. And Pilate said to them Behold the Man". In the novel, Moorcock weaves an existentialist tale about Karl Glogauer, a man who travels from the year 1970 in a time machine to 28 AD, where he hopes to meet the historical Jesus of Nazareth. A sequel, '' Breakfast in the Ruins'', was published in 1972. Plot summary The story begins with Karl's violent arrival in the Holy Land of AD 28, where his time machine, a womb-like, fluid-filled sphere, cracks open and becomes useless. In numerous interpolated memories and flashbacks, Moor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Antonio, Texas
San Antonio ( ; Spanish for "Anthony of Padua, Saint Anthony") is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the most populous city in Greater San Antonio. San Antonio is the List of Texas metropolitan areas, third-largest metropolitan area in Texas and the List of Metropolitan Statistical Areas, 24th-largest metropolitan area in the United States at 2.6 million people in the 2020 United States census. It is the most populous city in and the county seat of Bexar County. San Antonio is the List of United States cities by population, seventh-most populous city in the United States, and the second-most populous in the Southern United States List of municipalities in Texas, and Texas, after Houston. Founded as a Spanish colonization of the Americas, Spanish mission and colonial outpost in 1718, the city in 1731 became the first chartered civil settlement in what is now present-day Texas. The area was then part of the Spanish Empire. From 1821 to 1836, it was part of the Mexico, Mexican ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Crider
Bill Crider (July 28, 1941 – February 12, 2018) was an American author of crime fiction among other work. Biography Crider received a Master of Arts degree at the University of North Texas, in Denton. Later, he taught English at Howard Payne University for twelve years, before earning a Ph.D. degree at the University of Texas at Austin, where he wrote a dissertation on the hardboiled detective novel. Crider then moved to Alvin, Texas, with his wife, where he was the Chair of the Division of English and Fine Arts at Alvin Community College. He retired in August 2002 to become a full-time writer. Crider was the author of the Professor Sally Good and the Carl Burns mysteries, the Sheriff Dan Rhodes series, the Truman Smith P.I. series, and wrote three books in the Stone: M.I.A. Hunter series under the pseudonym "Jack Buchanan". He was also the writer of several westerns and horror novels. Personal life and death Crider had two children, Angela Crider Neary and Allen Crider, w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nancy A
Nancy may refer to: Places France * Nancy, France, a city in the northeastern French department of Meurthe-et-Moselle and formerly the capital of the duchy of Lorraine ** Arrondissement of Nancy, surrounding and including the city of Nancy ** Roman Catholic Diocese of Nancy, surrounding and including the city of Nancy ** École de Nancy, the spearhead of the Art Nouveau in France ** Musée de l'École de Nancy, a museum * Nancy-sur-Cluses, Haute-Savoie United States * Nancy, Kentucky * Nancy, Texas * Nancy, Virginia * Mount Nancy, in the White Mountains of New Hampshire People * Nancy (given name), including a list of people and fictional characters with the name * Nancy (singer) (Nancy Jewel McDonie; born 2000), member of Momoland * Nancy Ajram, Lebanese singer and businesswoman, commonly known mononymously as "Nancy" in the Arab World * Jean-Luc Nancy (1940–2021), French philosopher * Nazmun Munira Nancy, Bangladeshi singer Entertainment * ''Nancy'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Scott may refer to: Places Canada * Scott, Quebec, municipality in the Nouvelle-Beauce regional municipality in Quebec * Scott, Saskatchewan, a town in the Rural Municipality of Tramping Lake No. 380 * Rural Municipality of Scott No. 98, Saskatchewan United States * Scott, Arkansas * Scott, Georgia * Scott, Indiana * Scott, Louisiana * Scott, Missouri * Scott, New York * Scott, Ohio * Scott, Wisconsin (other) (several places) * Fort Scott, Kansas * Great Scott Township, St. Louis County, Minnesota * Scott Air Force Base, Illinois * Scott City, Kansas * Scott City, Missouri * Scott County (other) (various states) * Scott Mountain (other) (several places) * Scott River, in California * Scott Township (other) (several places) Elsewhere * 876 Scott, minor planet orbiting the Sun * Scott (crater), a lunar impact crater near the south pole of the Moon *Scott Conservation Park, a protected area in South Australia Lists * Scott ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neal Barrett, Jr
Neal Barrett Jr. (November 3, 1929 – January 12, 2014) was an American writer of fantasy, science fiction, mystery/suspense, and historical fiction. He also worked under the pseudonyms Victor Appleton, Chad Calhoun, Franklin W. Dixon (Stratemeyer Syndicate house names), Rebecca Drury, and J. D. Hardin. Biography Barrett was born in San Antonio, Texas, but grew up in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma after his family relocated there in his infancy. His first published science fiction story was "To Tell the Truth" in the August, 1960 issue of ''Galaxy Science Fiction''. After that he contributed short work to science fiction magazines with some regularity, but he was better known for his novels. His reputation was made in the late 1980s with the publication of his novel ''Through Darkest America'' and its sequel, ''Dawn's Uncertain Light''. Beginning in the 1990s and continuing into his later years, Barrett focused less on science fiction and more on crime thrillers, though he contin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
